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You too can own a cool Halifax Examiner travel mug

Morning File, Friday, November 16, 2018

November 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

November subscription drive We’ve got travel mugs! They’re too costly to mail, tho, so you can only get them if you come to our subscriber party, Sunday, November 25, 4–7pm at Bearly’s Tavern. The band Museum Pieces will play, and former CBC host and spice merchant Costas Halavrezos will introduce investigative journalist Linden MacIntyre as our […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bill Turpin, Canada Post, codeine, Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia, Jacob Boon, recent history of suspicious packages, snow plow collision, social media extortion scam, Soldiers of Odin, Stephen Archibald and Paris, Suspicious Package West Street, Tylenol 1

Nova Scotia jails are increasing the use of torture

Morning File, Thursday, September 6, 2018

September 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. “Expert panel” is toothless Reports Jennifer Henderson: After the deaths of three former nursing home residents linked to badly infected bedsores, months of mounting complaints through the Protection of Persons in Care Act, and published news stories from family members alleging nursing home staff are overworked and residents’ care is often neglected, Health […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, CAO Jerry Ryan, Cape Breton Correctional Centre, Cape Breton jail, Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM), electoral boundaries, FOIPOP website, John Whalley trial, Mary Campbell, Mayor Cecil Clarke, New Dawn Enterprises, Solitary confinement, Taryn Grant, torture, tuition, Urgent Agenda

Bad behaviour everywhere

Morning File, Thursday, August 2, 2018

August 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. An apology The Halifax Examiner acknowledges that the Armour Group Limited neither hired, nor fired, the janitors previously employed to clean Founder’s Square. Further, The Halifax Examiner retracts, and apologizes for the allegation that Armour Group engaged in racial discrimination in determining to no longer engage with GDI Integrated Facility Services. The original article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Winn, Andrew Rankin, architectural drawings, Armour Group Limited, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, Bill Turpin, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park, Cassie Williams, Catherine Tully, Chronic Relief, Convention centre, councillor Waye Mason, development proposal Robie and Pepperell, dispensary fire, Drug Information System (DIS), Events East, Founders Square, Fred MacGillivray, Harold MacKay, Icarus Report August 2, Jacque Dubé, Joe Ramia, Leitches Creek, Nova Centre appeal, Parker Donham, Robyn Keddy, Shambhala community, Sobeys pharmacist privacy breach, Stephanie Domet, Sunshine Report, Ticket Atlantic, Trade Centre Limited

Bureaucratic oversight and other misdemeanours

Morning File, Tuesday, April 10, 2018

April 10, 2018 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, sitting in on Morning File today. News 1. Randy Riley case “Last Tuesday, there was dramatic moment in Supreme Court, worthy of its own Law & Order episode,” reported Tim yesterday: In the course of its prosecution of Randy Riley for the 2010 murder of Chad Smith, the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Blois Colpitts, Frances Willick, Halifax doctor shortage, Imagine Bloomfield School, Jack Julian, Jacob Boon, Knowledge House, Matt Whitman complains about CBC, Matt Whitman vs Emma Davie, pot dispensary robbed, school lockdown system, Smiling Goat evicted from Kings Wharf, Wendy Walters

The second cruise ship berth may be Sydney’s very own Washmill underpass fiasco

Morning File, Thursday, April 5, 2018

April 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

1. Transit passes “The province and the city are cooperating on a plan that will put transit passes into the hands of 16,800 people with some of the lowest incomes in Halifax,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: The potential deal includes everyone within range of a bus stop receiving income assistance, including those currently […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, Chief Justice Michael MacDonald, Chrétien–McNeil meeting, doctor shortage in Metro, DSME plant, Haley Ryan, Jean Laroche, John McCracken, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Karen Foster, Keith Doucette, Mary Campbell, megaprojects, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp Mill releases communications, Nova Scotia minimum wage increase, NS Health Authority, Sydney's second cruise ship berth

Spectacular failures: Nova Scotia’s wild-eyed megaproject schemes

Morning File, Monday, April 2, 2018

April 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

1. Reporting While White “I have never claimed to write ‘objectively,’” writes El Jones: That doesn’t mean I write things I believe to be untrue or that are factually wrong, but I am always openly writing from the standpoint of a Black woman. White people, however, believe and are taught that their practices are in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby, Bent Flyvbjerg, Bill Turpin, Cape Breton Correctional Centre, Ernie LeBlanc, Examineradio 152, Halifax Convention Centre, hateful graffiti on churches, Joe Ramia, Justin Brake, megaprojects, Michael Tutton, noon gun Citadel Hill, Nova Centre, Peter Munk, restorative justice

Facing a budget shortfall for its new building, the YMCA is asking the city for $1.5 million: Morning File, Tuesday, February 20, 2018

February 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. A jury of whose peers? Discussing the case of Gerald Stanley, charged and then found not guilty of the murder of Colten Boushie, Stephen Kimber writes: In his instructions to the jury, Chief Justice Martel Popescul said jurors had three choices: agree with the Crown and convict Stanley of second-degree murder; conclude that Stanley should have known […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Needlessly institutionalized report, Bill Turpin, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, doctor shortage, electronic voting, Gerald Stanley, Gottingen Street renaming, Gottingen/Novalea issue, Halifax City Council minutes from 1981, Michael Tutton, Minas Basin tidal project, Robert Devet, Robert Mueller indictment against Russians, Stacey Pineau, YMCA asking for money

The worst-managed subscription drive ever: Morning File, Wednesday, November 8, 2017

November 8, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

November subscription drive This is the worst-managed subscription drive ever: I forgot to even mention it yesterday. That’s partly because I’m a bit busier than normal this week as I’m reporting on a couple of issues that require a lot of time, but the results of that reporting probably won’t be seen for weeks or […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Cheryl Gardner, Dan Fraser, Donkin Mine layoffs, Gary Basso, Halifax cops charged in Corey Rogers death, Halifax International Airport Authority sues Air Canada for Flight 624 crash, Michael Gorman, Sable decomissioning, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), SiRT director Ron J. MacDonald, subscription drive, what subscriptions pay for

The Lobster Wars of Bird Islands: Morning File, Wednesday, July 26, 2017

July 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Twinning the 103 Yesterday, the federal government announced funding for the twinning of Highway 103: Work involves twinning approximately 10.8 kilometres of road between Upper Tantallon and Ingramport, with the construction of new bridge structures over Mill Lake, Little Indian Lake, the Ingram River, and over Highway 103 at Mill Lake. A further […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rafuse, anti-Black racism, Bill Turpin, Cody Jewers, Dashonn States, development agreement at 2776 Gottingen Street, Dylan Naugler, Ecology Action Centre, Farley Pye, Gordon B. Isnor Manor, house fire Clam Bay, Leonard Jewers, Mitchell Gammon, Nicole States, Philip Gammon, RCMP Constable Daniel Ronaghan, Richard Starr, Robert Devet, Shaina Luck, Twinning the 103, warring lobstermen off the Eastern Shore, Welcoming Wheels

A series of segues: Morning File, Thursday, July 6, 2017

July 6, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Corey Rogers Yesterday, the Public Prosecution Service issued this rather cryptic release: The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has asked the Manitoba Prosecution Service to provide legal advice to the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) on its ongoing investigation into a 2016 death in Halifax Regional Police cells. On June 16, 2016, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: $3000 FOIPOP, Aly Thomson, Bill Turpin, Corey Rogers, Dan MacRury, Dave MacDonald, death in police custody, Dennis Theman, FOIPOP: successful WIPSI funding applications, Freedom of Information, Gary Basso, Ghost the cat, Jerri Southcott, Martin Herschorn, Mary Campbell, More on the PPS (Public Prosecution Service), Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service (PPS), osprey nest Lunenburg County, Ray Ivany, Ron Fetterly, Ron J. MacDonald, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Tiffany Chase, Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI)

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

About the Halifax Examiner

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